Learning Outcomes

What is Community Development?

Process Strategies and Roles

Community Development Roles

Community Collaboration

Working Effectively Across Different Organizational Cultures

Lesson Summary

In this module, you will learn how to define the community and its characteristics, and identify an issue to be resolved within the community. You will look at the various roles within a community group and the strategies it can use to further its objectives.

Getting To Know Your Community

Assessing Your Community

Using Criteria and Processes to Set Priorities

You will learn about tools that can be used to analyze the community such as community asset mapping and the community characteristic checklist. You will also get an overview of the types of collaboration that may be possible with other organisations found in the community development sector.

Building the Team

Effective Meetings

Planning for Change

Governance - Part 1

Governance - Part 2

In this module, you will learn about creating a team that can identify issues within the community group from ensuring inclusive participation to navigation conflict as well as the practical aspects of governance, liability and structure of the community group.

Communication Skills

Learning Styles

Facilitation Skills

Presentation Skills

Media Relations

Leadership Skills

Negotiation Skills

This module looks at the skills involved in delivering projects such as communication and facilitation techniques, preparing presentations and leadership skills. It also reviews media relations such as writing a press release or how to answer a difficult question.

Working Together

Making It Happen

Finding Resources

This module focuses on working with other organisations and forming successful partnerships. The phases of fundraising and pros and cons of different types of fundraising are reviewed as is what you need to do to have a successful volunteer program.

Choosing an Evaluation Format

Evaluation Methods

Sustaining Momentum

In this module, you will explore why it is important to evaluate the community project, what evaluation methods you can use to evaluate the project and what you need to do to sustain progress in a community group.

Diploma In Community Development First Assessment

You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.

Introduction to Diversity and Inclusion

Issues and Challenges

An Organizational Change Strategy

Steps to Inclusivity - Part 1

Steps to Inclusivity - Part 2

Legal Considerations

This module looks at diversity and inclusion, what the barriers to inclusion and how can they be overcome. It outlines the steps necessary to implement an inclusive policy in your organisation or group.

Planning Inclusive Events

Responding to Opposition

Sample Terms of Reference

Assessing the Community Demographic

Encouraging Diverse Community Involvement

Key Representative Interviews

Conducting Focus Groups

Organizational Self-Assessment Tool

Roles and Responsibilities of Stakeholders

Evaluating Your Success

This module provides the tools and techniques necessary to implement inclusiveness in and organisation along with the templates in the resources PDF that can be modified to fit your requirements.

What Do We Mean by Ethics?

Why Ethical Behavior Is Important

Who Is Subject to a Code of Ethics?

What Are the Ethical Issues to Be Considered?

This module will look at the role ethics play in community development projects. You will look at what is meant by the word 'ethics' and why ethical behavior is important. You will also study what ethical issues should be considered in community development projects and who is subject to a code of ethics.

Manage the Planning Process

Conduct a Situational Assessment

Set Goals, Audiences and Outcome Objectives

Choose Strategies and Activities and Assign Resources

Develop Indicators

Review the Plan

This module provides the tools and techniques necessary to manage and plan a promotion campaign in the community development area. It takes you through step by step from the situational assessment and goal setting to the reviewing the plan for completeness.

Developing Program Plan

Seeking Funding

Manage the Proposal Development Process

Developing Your Proposal

Producing and Packaging Proposal

Submitting Proposal and Follow-Up

This module will walk you through the process of seeking funding for community projects, from firming out your project plan and identifying possible funding sources to developing and submitting the proposal.

Diploma in Community Development Second Assessment

Diploma In Community Development Final Assessment

This online course offers a certificate in community development, covering community values, concepts, and practices.

Diploma in Community Development

This free online course offers a Certificate in Community Development, and covers the values, concepts, and practices commonly found in the community development sector, showing you how to consider community health in trying to understand community development. You will learn to identify and address serious issues in your community. If you want to learn how to organize a community group, this certificate training program is for you.

This module defines the community and its characteristics, and how to identify an issue to be resolved within the community. You will also look at various roles within a community group and strategies it can use to further its objectives.

This module is about tools that can be used to analyze the community such as community asset mapping and the community characteristic checklist. It provides an overview of the types of collaboration that may be possible with other organizations found in the community development sector.

Introduction to Community Development Assessment

Learn about the principles of community development, how to identify and resolve issues from this free online course.

Introduction to Community Development

This free online course, Introduction to Community Development, teaches about the values, concepts, and practices utilized in the community development sector. You will learn how to identify issues that need to be actioned within the community as well as about the collaborations, tools for community analysis, group roles and strategies to achieve objectives, as well as inclusive participation and navigating group conflict.

Communication

Learn about the various skills required in delivering projects such as communication and facilitation techniques, presentation and leadership skills. It also reviews media relations such as writing a press release or how to answer a difficult question.

Delivering Community Development Assessment

Learn about community development strategies and processes and how to evaluate the effectiveness of a project.

Delivering Community Development

This free online course on the Process of Community Development teaches the skills required to successfully deliver community projects, ranging from communication and leadership to presentation and facilitation. You will learn about media relations and communication techniques, recruiting volunteers and organizing a successful volunteer program as well as about successful partnership requirements.

Introduction To The Field Of Community Psychology

The Role of Prevention

A Social Justice Orientation

A Shift in Perspective: The Ecological Model

Other Key Principles of Community Psychology

This module will introduce you to the field of community psychology, defining why it was created, when, and the key aspects of it such as prevention, social justice, and its key principles.

Historical Context

The First Decade: 1965-1975

The Second Decade: 1975-1985

The Third Decade: 1985-1995

The Fourth Decade: 1995-2005

The Fifth Decade: 2005 to The Present

This module details the history of Community Psychology from its founding at the 1965 Swapmscott conference to the modern day.

Introduction Community Psychologists Who We Are

Non-Traditional Community Psychologiests

Community Psychology Work Setting

How to Gain Employment As a Community Psychologist

This module discusses who community psychologists are and the issues they explore and investigate, detailing non-traditional approach to becoming a community psychologist, work settings, and how to gain employment as a community psychologist.

Why Study International Community Psychology

Types of International Community Psychology Work

A Method to Understand Context and Culture

A Method To Understand Historical Context

From Heroism To Justice

The Challenges of International Community Psychology

Practical Skills From International Community Psychology

This module will describe some of the similarities and differences International Community Psychology has with “domestic” Community Psychology, and give examples of some of the unique challenges and rewards of doing International Community Psychology work.

Diploma in Community Psychology - First Assessment

You need a score of 80% or more to pass this assessment.

Why Theories are Important

Ecological Theory

Sense of Community Theory

Social Climate Theory

Liberation Psychology

This module discusses the theories in community psychology and why they are important including detail on the; Ecological theory, sense of community theory, social climate theory, and liberation psychology.

Is a Community Intervention Successful

Evidence and Scientific Process

Research and Ethics

Elements of Research Design

Qualitative Research Methods

Quantitative Research Methods

Mixed Methods Research and Other Methods

This module takes you though different research methods that can be used by community psychologists and why you would use them and discusses the ethics of research and research design.

The Role of Competencies in Community Psychology

The Competencies

Learning and Strengthening Competencies

Diploma in Community Psychology - Second Assessment

Cultural Humility

Dimensions of Diversity

Impact of Identities

Designing Culturally-Situated Community Programs

This topic discusses a community psychologists need to respect diversity in their work including, what cultural humility is, the different dimension of diversity, the impact of identities and how to design culturally situated programs.

Just What is Oppression

Why Oppression?

Psychological Implications of Oppression

Just What is Power?

Oppression and Power: Two Sides of The Same Coin

Action Strategies: Dismantling Oppression and Power

Systems Perspective

This module discusses the interrelated concepts of oppression and power and explore their relationship to the health and well-being of communities.

Introduction to Empowerment

Levels of Empowerment - Part 1

Levels of Empowerment - Part 2

Privilege, Oppression, and Empowerment

A Conceptual Model of Empowerment

This module introduces you to empowering others, or empowerment, starting off with teaching you what empowerment is, the different levels of empowerment, and a conceptual model for empowering others.

Diploma in Community Psychology - Third Assessment

Introduction to Community Interventions

Effectiveness

Implementation

Transforming Community Contexts

This topic discusses implementing community interventions which are actions that address social problems or unmet human needs, and take place in a neighborhood, community, or other setting.

Historical Perspectives

Types of Prevention

Promotion and Risk

Prevention Research and Programming

Critiques of the Prevention Paradigm

This module discusses the history of prevention in psychology and its key concepts along with its issues and critiques.

Physiological Vs. Psychological Stress

Coping and Stress

Coping and Context

Resilience

This module teaches you about what stress is, the different types of stress and how to deal with it including strategies for coping with stress and how some people are resilient to stress.

Diploma in Community Psychology - Fourth Assessment

Introduction to Public Policy

What is Public Policy

Community Psychology and Public Policy

How Community Psychologists Influence Public Policy

Challenges to Policy Work and A Historical Perspective

This module is about policies that often are not visible but create types of hardships, and it will often take a historical perspective to see the reasons so many have diminished life opportunities and long-term financial hardship.

Collaborative Partnerships

Community Coalitions

The Cycle of Community Organizing

Community Organizing Techniques

Other Key Concepts of Community Organizing

This module discusses community psychologists work with collaborative partnerships, community coalitions and organizing community,

Introduction to Behavioural Approaches

Applied Behaviour Analysis

Contribution of Behavioral Community Psychology

Other Issues to Consider

This module will teach you about Behavioral Community Psychology approach which allows for a more focused and targeted method to define and change a range of community and social problems.

Introducing Social and Political Change

Use of Participatory Means

Means Matter

Praxis as an Alternative Process

This module discusses social and political change, starting with the example of Dr. Martin Luther King work for civil-rights, and what social and political change is. Then participatory means is explained, getting people to participate in creating change, along with discussing how the ethical means by with change is created matters.

Community Psychology Participatory Approaches

Ecological Perspectives

What is Knowledge and Evidence?

This module discusses dissemination and implementation of community psychology programs, talking about what knowledge and evidence is, participatory approaches to implementation, an the ecological perspective when implementing a program.

Educational Preparation

Community Psychology Practice Competencies

This module will address questions about education, competencies and engaging in the field in order to provide you with an overview of some next steps for you career in Community Psychology.

Learn about community psychology, community psychologists and their view on social problems in this free online course.

Diploma in Community Psychology

This free online course, Diploma in Community Psychology, will teach you about how social problems are viewed by community psychologists, and how they attempt to solve them. You will also learn about community intervention and prevention strategies, how communities cope with the stress as well as how community psychologists attempt to change and disrupt harmful dynamics in an attempt to improve community wellbeing.